Well, if you are like me, and interested in astronomy, you might be interested to know that Pluto's two most recently discovered moons have been named. Along with Charon, which is quite large in comparison to Pluto, astronomers have named the two much smaller moons Nix and Hydra. It's amazing to me that so many objects are being discovered in our own solar system all the time. I remember when the Voyager probes flew by Jupiter and Saturn in the late 1970's and rewrote all the astronomy books. Before Voyager, Jupiter supposedly had 16 moons. Now, we know of eight regular moons, and at least six groups of irregular moons. We also learned through Voyager that Saturn wasn't the only planet with rings - Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune had them as well. What an amazing place God created for us. We still know so little about it.
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